I think this is shaping up as Sony's E3 to lose. You show some good games and announce a decent price ($350 - $399), and they've got it. Especially with all the other concerns swirling around the XBox.

Eh, I don't think the pricing is as much a failure this year. These new consoles are coming with a lot more tech in the box, namely the new cameras and controllers. $500 is slightly more reasonable now with the new kinect camera included. Likewise for the new eye and controllers.

Also, these consoles will have free to play games available to play on them day 1.

But, since MS set the price at $500, I don't think Sony will go any lower than $450.

Eh, I don't think the pricing is as much a failure this year. These new consoles are coming with a lot more tech in the box, namely the new cameras and controllers. $500 is slightly more reasonable now with the new kinect camera included. Likewise for the new eye and controllers.

Also, these consoles will have free to play games available to play on them day 1.

But, since MS set the price at $500, I don't think Sony will go any lower than $450.

I'm... underwhelmed. Having said that, I was pretty damn tired while watching this, so that might have colored my impressions.

I'll just ignore the shooters, which in typical Microsoft fashion represented most of the big titles. Shooters are a given at this point. Let us see NEW stuff! The only RPG I noticed was multiplatform (The Witcher 3) for example. The Halo reveal was classy though, for what it's worth.

The only two games that got my blood pumping were Dead Rising 3 and The Witcher 3. Both made me think "I want to play this now!", which is good. I suppose DR3 is for Xbox One only though.

Project Spark has potential, but it was so heavily choreographed that it was impossible to figure out much about the game itself. We certainly didn't see actual gameplay. The game itself didn't look very fun, but I guess it's the sandbox experience that is front and center in a game like this, just like for Little Big Planet (the obvious inspiration).

The indies being presented made me uncomfortable due to the reveals lately about how Microsoft actually deals with indies.

$499?

$499???

One more "Xbox One reveal is the new PS3 reveal", I guess.

Come on Sony, you can do better than this! If you follow suit and present nothing but shooters, I'll never forgive you!

Is there nothing official out about the new Live Gold pricing? If Gold pricing stays the same and Sony also comes out at $500, I'll still at least consider the XBone. If Gold pricing goes up and Sony multiplayer stays free? I'm joining the Sony Defense Force.

Also, the PS4 is coming with the new Eye, which does have a bit of tech in it, nothing like Kinect, it's just two cameras of different specifications. How much that tech will cost, I guess we'll see. I know they're doing depth processing to handle kinect-like functionality without the IR beams, but I suspect it'll work as well as the old Kinect 1.

Lastly, overall I'm actually excited for what they're bringing, so I will own an Xbox ONE within 2 years or so, unless Sony royally screws up.

Eh, I don't think the pricing is as much a failure this year. These new consoles are coming with a lot more tech in the box, namely the new cameras and controllers. $500 is slightly more reasonable now with the new kinect camera included. Likewise for the new eye and controllers.

Also, these consoles will have free to play games available to play on them day 1.

But, since MS set the price at $500, I don't think Sony will go any lower than $450.

You mean free to play IF you pay for Gold, right?

The free to play games were for the 360. They won't work on the Xbone.

Ryse was the absolute low point of the show for me, btw. The game looked graphically impressive, but the gameplay was so broken that it wasn't even fun to watch it being played. The camera is so close to the player character that he covers about a third of the screen. You have no situational awareness because of this, but also because the camera keeps zooming all over the place in the quicktime events that occur for every single kill. The grew tiresome after the first few. The whole thing was also classic Microsoft in its sterotypical tough masculinity, and the beach sequence tried too hard to rip off Saving Private Ryan.

This is a game I'm most definitely not going to play if the demo was anything like the final product.

I'm... underwhelmed. Having said that, I was pretty damn tired while watching this, so that might have colored my impressions.

I'll just ignore the shooters, which in typical Microsoft fashion represented most of the big titles. Shooters are a given at this point. Let us see NEW stuff! The only RPG I noticed was multiplatform (The Witcher 3) for example. The Halo reveal was classy though, for what it's worth.

The only two games that got my blood pumping were Dead Rising 3 and The Witcher 3. Both made me think "I want to play this now!", which is good. I suppose DR3 is for Xbox One only though.

Project Spark has potential, but it was so heavily choreographed that it was impossible to figure out much about the game itself. We certainly didn't see actual gameplay. The game itself didn't look very fun, but I guess it's the sandbox experience that is front and center in a game like this, just like for Little Big Planet (the obvious inspiration).

The indies being presented made me uncomfortable due to the reveals lately about how Microsoft actually deals with indies.

$499?

$499???

One more "Xbox One reveal is the new PS3 reveal", I guess.

Come on Sony, you can do better than this! If you follow suit and present nothing but shooters, I'll never forgive you!

I also thought that Dead Rising 3 looked awesome! That and Ryse looked kind of cool. Other than that....meh.

It sucks that MS is throwing their money around again...but that is pretty much the only thing they can do at this point to get gamers to come to e Xbox One. Blackmail them!

Anyway, I'm sure that at least Dead Rising will come to the PS4 at some point.

Eh, I don't think the pricing is as much a failure this year. These new consoles are coming with a lot more tech in the box, namely the new cameras and controllers. $500 is slightly more reasonable now with the new kinect camera included. Likewise for the new eye and controllers.

Also, these consoles will have free to play games available to play on them day 1.

But, since MS set the price at $500, I don't think Sony will go any lower than $450.

The problem is that most people I know don't care about the Kinect at all. They have no option but to buy it. And, as far as I could tell, none of the games they showed today had much, if any, Kinect functionality. So why package this hardware device if the biggest games don't use it?

Ryse was the absolute low point of the show for me, btw. The game looked graphically impressive, but the gameplay was so broken that it wasn't even fun to watch it being played. The camera is so close to the player character that he covers about a third of the screen. You have no situational awareness because of this, but also because the camera keeps zooming all over the place in the quicktime events that occur for every single kill. The grew tiresome after the first few. The whole thing was also classic Microsoft in its sterotypical tough masculinity, and the beach sequence tried too hard to rip off Saving Private Ryan.

This is a game I'm most definitely not going to play if the demo was anything like the final product.

Yeah, when I said Ryse looked cool.....I really ment LOOKED. . That is one nice looking game.

Ryse was the absolute low point of the show for me, btw. The game looked graphically impressive, but the gameplay was so broken that it wasn't even fun to watch it being played. The camera is so close to the player character that he covers about a third of the screen. You have no situational awareness because of this, but also because the camera keeps zooming all over the place in the quicktime events that occur for every single kill. The grew tiresome after the first few. The whole thing was also classic Microsoft in its sterotypical tough masculinity, and the beach sequence tried too hard to rip off Saving Private Ryan.

This is a game I'm most definitely not going to play if the demo was anything like the final product.

Ryse could've made me wet my pants if it had something like Dynasty Warriors combat instead of repeated slow-mo-XTREME-action-QTE combat.